--- title: Ella asked anyway; Mum said «Share it.» Ruby's teacher showed the cl… — The check that settles it · tree and pragmatics description: Ella asked anyway; Mum said «Share it.» Ruby's teacher showed the class three questions that settle almost any claim: How do you know? Who acts: Ella, Mum, teacher, three questions. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Ella, Mum, teacher, three questions), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:everyday:451-the-check-that-settles-it.lesson:1 # text = Ella asked anyway; Mum said «Share it.» Ruby's teacher showed the class three questions that settle almost any claim: How do you know? # source = school lesson (ours) # course = everyday # lesson = 451-the-check-that-settles-it.lesson # annotation = Mova annot: Rust (en) → Haiku 5.5 (medium, Batches API) patches; gates UD 2.18; agreed by treeagree rules (Stanza, Trankit, spaCy trf): R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 Ella Ella PROPN NNP Number=Sing 2 nsubj _ _ 2 asked ask VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 anyway anyway ADV RB _ 2 advmod _ _ 4 ; ; PUNCT : _ 6 punct _ _ 5 Mum mum NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 nsubj _ _ 6 said say VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 2 parataxis _ _ 7 « « PUNCT `` _ 8 punct _ _ 8 Share share VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 6 ccomp _ _ 9 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 8 obj _ _ 10 . . PUNCT . _ 8 punct _ _ 11 » » PUNCT '' _ 8 punct _ _ 12 Ruby Ruby PROPN NNP Number=Sing 14 nmod:poss _ _ 13 's 's PART POS _ 12 case _ _ 14 teacher teacher NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 nsubj _ _ 15 showed show VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 2 parataxis _ _ 16 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 17 det _ _ 17 class class NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 iobj _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=15:obj 18 three three NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 19 nummod _ _ 19 questions question NOUN NNS Number=Plur 15 obj _ _ 20 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 21 nsubj _ _ 21 settle settle VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 19 acl:relcl _ _ 22 almost almost ADV RB _ 24 advmod _ _ 23 any any DET DT PronType=Ind 24 det _ _ 24 claim claim NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 obj _ _ 25 : : PUNCT : _ 29 punct _ _ 26 How how ADV WRB PronType=Int 29 advmod _ _ 27 do do AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 29 aux _ _ 28 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 29 nsubj _ _ 29 know know VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 2 parataxis _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=2:parataxis|HaikuPos=VERB:VBP:Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 30 ? ? PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **ask** *speech: ask* | past | Ella | | | | | anyway *property* | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | Mum | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 3 | **share** *in a quote* | infinitive | | cake | | | | | tree rules | | 4 | **show** | past | Ruby's teacher | three questions | the class | | | | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent class=Recipient question=Topic | | 5 | **settle** | present | three questions | any claim | | | | | vn odge-46-1 «NP V ADV»: agent=Theme claim=Location | | 6 | **know** | present · do-support | you | | | | | | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree. **Licence: [CC BY-SA 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/)**, as the whole of Mova corpus 0.4, of which this treebank (the agreed school, `mova-school-agreed-en.conllu`) is part. The lessons were written for Mova's primary school. Sentence `school:everyday:451-the-check-that-settles-it.lesson:1`. **The tree:** Mova annot: Rust (en) → Haiku 5.5 (medium, Batches API) patches; gates UD 2.18; agreed by treeagree rules (Stanza, Trankit, spaCy trf): R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1. **The frames** are read from the tree by Mova's frames reader (`prag`) when this page is built, the lesson read in order, so a pronoun may be resolved from an earlier sentence. See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/). - ← previous: [The check that settles it, 0](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/451-the-check-that-settles-it/0/) - next →: [The check that settles it, 2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/451-the-check-that-settles-it/2/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/451-the-check-that-settles-it/)